review: Too Pure To Die--Confidence and Consequence

Des Moines, Iowa quintet Too Pure To Die play perhaps the most generic brand of chug-chug moshcore imaginable. If you’ve ever heard Throwdown, Bury Your Dead, or any of the other myriad metallic hardcore bands who substitute open chord breakdowns for songwriting, you’ll know exactly what to expect. Trustkill’s rerelease of Confidence and Consequence benefits from excellent production, courtesy of Andreas Magnusson, and a couple of catchy riffs. There’s nothing aggressively awful about these songs, but the band retreads such well-worn territory that the whole affair feels uninspired. Expect lyrics like, “You’ll always be dead to me,” and “I’ve got the straight edge”; the occasional metal lead; and breakdown after breakdown. You’ve probably heard this all a million times before, and done better. Too Pure To Die brings the mosh and not much else.

Too Pure To Die
Confidence and Consequence
Trustkill